Curses

Question 1

Relation between natural resources and growth

Answer 1

See Sachs and Warner (1995). No specific setting

Question 2

Relevance of institutions in resource-rich countries

Answer 2

See Mehlum, Moene, and Torvik (2006). No specific setting

Question 3

Resources, re-election and future stock

Answer 3

See Robinson, Torvik, and Verdier (2006). No specific setting

Question 4

Effects of oil discovery on corruption

Answer 4

São Tomé and Principe

Question 5

Spillovers of oil on other activities and consequences of the oil-related fiscal windfall

Answer 5

Brazil

Question 6

Effect of income shocks due to change in world commodity prices on civil war dynamics

Answer 6

Colombia. Also part of CONFLICTS

Question 7

Relationship between conflict in a poor resource-abundant country and the value of international diamond mining firms

Answer 7

Angola. Also part of CONFLICTS

Question 8

Impact of mining on conflict in face of price shocks

Answer 8

Africa. Also part of CONFLICTS

Question 9

Effect of ethnic fragmentation on development

Answer 9

Sub-Saharan Africa. See Easterly and Levine (1997)

Question 10

Explore the mechanisms that link high levels of ethnic division to low levels of public goods provision

Answer 10

Uganda

Question 11

Correlation between pre-colonial ethnic institutions and regional variation in contemporary economic performance

Answer 11

See Michalopoulos and Papaioannou (2013). No specific setting. Light density paper

Question 12

Conditions under which cultural cleavages become politically salient

Answer 12

Zambia-Malawi border

Question 13

Ethnic identities as tools to get access to political power

Answer 13

Ten African countries

Question 14

Comparison of how central government nation-building policies affect interethnic cooperation

Answer 14

Kenya and Tanzania